Are you looking for more reasons to be excited about 2022, other than just wanting to be done with 2021? Then check the list of exciting new books being released next year! The pandemic may have pushed back some releases into 2022 but that just just gives us more of a reason to read more books. So get ready TBR journal or list ready, because you want to make sure to jot down these exciting new releases!

Please note that due to supply chain issues that some of the release dates may change abruptly. Also, there was a lot of books being released in 2022 so I only focused on half of the year.

January Releases

The Burning Swift by Joseph Elliott

Expected Publication Dates: January 4 (US) and January 6 (UK)

With the deadly phantom sgàilean defeated, Jaime and Agatha prepare to help their clan reclaim their compound from the treacherous Raasay people. But Sigrid, sent at the behest of Queen Beatrice, arrives with a warning: the kings of Norveg and Ingland have joined forces and plan to march north to annihilate the people of Scotia. The clan quickly turns to the Badhbh and his powerful blood magic. But instead of aiding them, the mage kidnaps Agatha, seemingly as an offering to the kings. Now Sigrid and Jaime must rally unlikely allies to face a common enemy, even as Jaime finds himself drawn to a boy from another clan. Meanwhile, Agatha garners unexpected support among the Inglish as well as from an animal of Scotian legend, and discovers the extraordinary secrets of her past. Three remarkable heroes unite for the grand conclusion of this rich and exciting series. (Credit: Walker Books US)

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

Expected Publication Date: January 13

It’s time to solve the murder of the century…

Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle. That a message in secret code ran through all Edith Twyford’s novels. Then Miss Isles disappeared on a class field trip, and Steven’s memory won’t allow him to remember what happened.

Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Steven decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. Was Miss Isles murdered? Was she deluded? Or was she right about the code? And is it still in use today? Desperate to recover his memories and find out what really happened to Miss Isles, Steven revisits the people and places of his childhood. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasn’t just a writer of forgotten children’s stories. The Twyford Code has great power, and he isn’t the only one trying to solve it…(Credit: Profile Books Ltd)

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones 

Expected Publication Date: January 18

When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning–and stunningly succinct–analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.

In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions–those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves–the most valuable asset we have–in the fight against a system that is still rigged. (Credit: Henry Holt & Company)

• Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan(Expected Release Date: January 4)
• Medusa: The Girl Behind The Myth by Jessie Burton (Expected Release Date: January 11)
• Crushing By Sophie Burrows (Expected Release Date: January 11)
• Wahala by Nikki May (Expected Release Date: January 11)
• Manifesto On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo (Expected Release Date: January 18)
• Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar (Expected Release Date: January 25)
• Make It Happen: You Can Be An Activist by Amika George (Expected Release Date: January 25)
• On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It by Michael Rosen (Expected Release Date: January 25)

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Expected Publication Date: January 25

The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife Helen, the play’s star. Their young granddaughter has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and with an experimental treatment costing a tremendous sum, their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced of the experimental treatment’s efficacy–nor of the good intentions of those involved. As tension grows within the community, things come to a shocking head at the explosive dress rehearsal. The next day, a dead body is found, and soon, an arrest is made. In the run-up to the trial, two young lawyers sift through the material–emails, messages, letters–with a growing suspicion that a killer may be hiding in plain sight. The evidence is all there, between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. (Credit: Simon & Schuster)

February Releases

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

Expected Publication Date: February 2

The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered. London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie.The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing? (Credit: St.Martin’s Press)

Like A Chard by Elle McNicoll

Expected publication date: February 3

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them… until Ramya Knox. As she is pulled into her family’s world of secrets and spells, Ramya sets out to discover the truth behind the Hidden Folk with only three words of warning from her grandfather: Beware the Sirens.

Plunged into an adventure that will change everything, Ramya is about to learn that there is more to her powers than she ever imagined. (Credit: Knights of Media)

• The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Expected Release Date: February 1)
• Me and White Supremacy (Young Reader’s Edition) by Layla F. Saad (Expected Release Date: February 1)
• Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal (Expected Release Date: February 1)
• Finlay Donavan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano (Expected Release Date: February 1)
• Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World (Expected Release Date: February 8)
• The Second Woman by Charlotte Philby (Expected Release Date: February 15)
• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died: A Memoir by Séamas O’Reilly (Expected Release Date: February 22)
• Would I Lie To You? by Aliya Ali-Afzal (Expected Release Date: February 22)

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

Expected publication: February 22

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling. (Credit: William Morrow & Company)

March Releases

Lock the Doors by Vincent Ralph

Expected Publication Date: March 1

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home in Ireland and disappears. Bewildered a Edge-of-your-seat suspense for fans of Karen McManus, Holly Jackson, and Lisa Jewell. Tom’s family has moved into their dream home. But pretty soon Tom starts to notice that something is very wrong—there are locks on the bedroom doors. On the outside. Then Tom’s family finds a message written under the wallpaper in tiny black letters, “HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME” over and over again. The previous owners have moved just across the street and they seem like the perfect family. Tom meets their daughter Amy at school and she’s enigmatic and funny, but Tom is sure she’s got something to hide. And he isn’t going to stop until he finds the truth about those locked doors and desperate messages. . . Will their dream home become a nightmare? (Credit: Sourcebooks Fire)

Where The Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan

 Expected Publication Date: March 3

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of it all Nell must do everything she can to keep her family together, and everyone she loves alive. Even if it means giving up her every want, dream and desire. From multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan comes a stirring, heart-wrenching novel that explores the value we place on humanity and asks can you survive on love alone? (Credit: Bloomsbury Books)

Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys, Brittney Williams, Andrew Weiner

Expected Publication Date: March 1

From New York Times bestselling and Grammy Award–winning artist comes a new authentic, honest, coming-of-age young adult graphic novel. 

Fans of the Paper Girls and I Am Alfonso Jones will love this new full-color, jacketed hardcover graphic novel by New York Times bestselling and Grammy Award–winning artist about finding the strength within when your whole world changes in an instant. (Credit: HarperAlley)

• Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• The Heights by Louise Candlish (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• The Night Shift by Alex Finlay (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• The Fell by Sarah Moss (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• All The Queen’s Men by SJ. Bennett (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• Bless the Daughter: Raised by A Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Expected Publication Date: March 1)
• Under Lock and Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian (Expected Publication Date: March 15)
• We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole (Expected Publication Date: March 15)

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

Expected Publication Date: March 15

In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect–a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases–a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.

They meet regularly at Beth’s mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she’s not looking, and she could swear she’s seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn’t right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house? (Credit: Berkley Books)

Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

Expected publication date: March 29

Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his camera and heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man is murdered.

But before it even really begins, the city implements a new safety protocol…the Dome. The Dome surrounds the city, forcing those within to subscribe to a total militarized shutdown. No one can get in, and no one can get out.

Alone in a strange place, Jamal doesn’t know where to turn…until he meets hacker Marco, who knows more than he lets on, and Catherine, an AWOL basic-training-graduate, whose parents helped build the initial plans for the Dome.

As unrest inside of Baltimore grows throughout the days-long lockdown, Marco, Catherine, and Jamal take the fight directly to the chief of police. But the city is corrupt from the inside out, and it’s going to take everything they have to survive. (Credit: Sourcebooks Fire)

Small’s Big Dream by Manjeet Mann and illustrated by Amanda Quartey 

Expected Publication Date: March 31

In Small’s world, everything is small – her shoes, her bed, everything. But her dreams are big. And Small discovers that when you dream big, anything – and everything – can happen. (Credit: HarperCollins)

When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando

Expected Publication Date: March 31

When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers from very different walks of life are unexpectedly brought together. What follows flips their worlds upside down and makes Chantelle, Jackson, and Marc question the deep-rooted prejudice and racism that exists within the police, the media, and the rest of society. (Credit: Simon & Schuster UK)

April Releases

Reputation by Lex Croucher

Expected Publication Date: April 5

Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the summer with her stodgy aunt and uncle at their home in the English countryside. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who delights Georgiana with her disregard for so-called “polite society.”

Lonely and vulnerable, Georgiana quickly falls in with Frances and her wealthy, wild, and deeply improper friends, who introduce her to the upper echelons of Regency aristocracy, and a world of drunken debauchery, frivolous spending, and mysterious young men. One, in particular, stands out from the rest: Thomas Hawksley, who has a tendency to cross paths with Georgiana in her most embarrassing moments. Sparks fly, but Thomas seems unimpressed with the company she is keeping. And soon, Georgiana begins to wonder whether she’ll ever feel like she fits in—or if the price of entry into Frances’s gilded world will ultimately be higher than she is willing to pay. (Credit: St. Martin’s Griffin)

• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (Expected Publication Date: April 5)
• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (Expected Publication Date: April 5)
• Delphine Jones Takes a Chance by Beth Morrey (Expected Publication Date: April 5)
• Thin Places by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh (Expected Publication Date: April 12)
• Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf (Expected Publication Date: April 15)
• The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone edited by Natalie Eve Garrett (Expected Publication Date: April 19)

The No-Show by Beth O’Leary

Expected Publication Dates: April 26 (US) and April 12 (UK)

Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth.
 
These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: they’ve all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up—Valentine’s Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they’ve all been stood up by the same man.
 
Once they’ve each forgiven him for standing them up, they are all in serious danger of falling in love with a man who may have not just one or two but three women on the go….
 
Is there more to him than meets the eye? Where was he on Valentine’s Day? And will they each untangle the truth before they all get their hearts broken? (Credit: Berkeley Publishing)

People Person by Candice Carty-Williams

Expected Publication Date: April 28

If you could choose your family… you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons.

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about.

She’s thirty, and her life isn’t really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she’s never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they’re all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated. (Credit: Orion Publishing Co.)

May Releases

Breathless by Amy McCulloch

Expected Publication Date: May 3

When journalist and novice climber Cecily Wong is asked to summit Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, it’s a career-making opportunity. She’s been personally invited by Charles McVeigh, one of the most acclaimed mountaineers in the world, who wants her to report on the final leg of his record-breaking series of summits. But there’s one caveat: he won’t give her the interview until she’s scaled the mountain as part of his climbing party.
 
Cecily is by far the least experienced of the group, but she is intent on proving herself and will stop at nothing to reach the summit. So when disturbing questions arise, she becomes concerned. And then people start to die. Trapped on the mountain with a team she barely knows, she must battle more than the elements in an epic fight for survival against one of the world’s most dangerous mountains and an unknown assailant who is picking climbers off one by one.  (Credit: Anchor)

Isolated Incidents and Other Lies That Shape Women’s Lives by Laura Bates

Expected Publication Date: May 12

10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the ‘isolated incidents’ of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society.

Every three days in the UK, women are murdered by their current or former partners. 137 women worldwide are killed by a family member every day. These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a devastatingly clear pattern. But it is a pattern we are so used to seeing that we simply don’t notice it anymore. These incidents are the product of a society in which misogyny is so deeply ingrained that it has simply become part of our daily lives.

This book will lay these patterns bare for everyone to see. Joining the dots from an epidemic of school sexual violence to the failings of the police and CPS, institutional and systemic misogyny, political apathy and media distortion, this will be an examination of how the entire system lets women and girls down, again and again. (Credit: Simon & Schuster)

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner

Expected Publication Date: May 17

Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager’s unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans:

Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiancé was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances – most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction.

Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she’s been working to support her family following her husband’s breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own.

Evie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she’s working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future.

As they interact with various literary figures of the time – Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell), Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and others – these three women with their complex web of relationships, goals, and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow. (Credit: St. Martin’s Press)

• The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (Expected Publication Date: May 3)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Expected Publication Date: May 3)
• Love Marriage by Monica Ali (Expected Publication Date: May 3)
• Magpie by Elizabeth Day (Expected Publication Date: May 3)
• Elektra by Jennifer Saint (Expected Publication Date: May 10)
• The Key To Deceit by Ashley Weaver (Expected Publication Date: May 10)
• The Island by Adrian McKinty (Expected Publication Date: May 17)
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (Expected Publication Date: May 24)

Only On The Weekends by Dean Atta

Expected Publication Date: May 12

Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic – he blames the films he’s grown up watching. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend – it feels like love.

But when Mack’s dad gets a job on a film in Scotland, Mack has to move, and soon he discovers how painful love can be. It’s horrible being so far away from Karim, but the worst part is that Karim doesn’t make the effort to visit. Love shouldn’t be only on the weekends.

Then, when Mack meets actor Finlay on a film set, he experiences something powerful, a feeling like love at first sight. How long until he tells Karim – and when will his old life and new life collide? (Credit: Hachette Children’s Books)

Idol by Louise O’Neill

Expected publication date: May 12

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth.’

For Samantha Miller’s young fans – her ‘girls’ – she’s everything they want to be. She’s an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their ‘truth’.

And her career is booming: she’s just hit three million followers, her new book Chaste has gone straight to the top of the bestseller lists and she’s appearing at sell-out events.

Determined to speak her truth and bare all to her adoring fans, she’s written an essay about her sexual awakening as a teenager, with her female best friend, Lisa. She’s never told a soul but now she’s telling the world. The essay goes viral.

But then – years since they last spoke – Lisa gets in touch to say that she doesn’t remember it that way at all. Her memory of that night is far darker. It’s Sam’s word against Lisa’s – so who gets to tell the story? Whose ‘truth’ is really a lie?

‘You put yourself on that pedestal, Samantha. You only have yourself to blame.’ (Credit: Transworld Publications)

June Releases

• The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue (Expected Publication Date: June 7)
• Peril at Pennington Manor by Tracy Gardner (Expected Publication Date: June 7)
• The Girl They All Forgot by Martin Edwards (Expected Publication Date: June 7)
• Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (Expected Publication Date: June 7)
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (Expected Publication Date: June 7)
• Little Nothings by Julie Mayhew (Expected Publication Date: June 21)
• This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron (Expected Publication Date: June 21)
• Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow (Expected Publication Date: June 28)

Releases Later In the Year

The Ruins by Phoebe Wynne

Expected Publication Date: July 5

Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d’Azur. Ruby Ashby adores her parents’ house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau––friends of her parents, and their daughters—and they are keen to enjoy the hot, extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential. Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices. But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families, and the sanctuary that Ruby cherishes soon starts to feel like a gilded cage.

Over two decades later the chateau is for sale, its days of splendor and luxury long gone, leaving behind a terrible history and an ugly legacy. A young widow has returned to France wanting to purchase the chateau despite her shocking memories of what transpired that fateful summer. But there is another person who is equally haunted by the chateau and who also seeks to reclaim it. Who will set the chateau free––and who will become yet another of its victims?

With riveting psychological complexity, The Ruins captures the glittering allure of the Mediterranean––and the dark shadows that wait beneath the surface. (Credit: St. Martin’s Press)

First Born by Will Dean

Expected Publication Date: July 5

Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers.

Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous.

But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them. (Credit: Atria Books)

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Expected Publication Date: July 12

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends–Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily–during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder. (Credit: Gallery/Scout Press)

I Rise by Marie Arnold

Expected Publication Date: August 2

A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother’s activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance.

Ayo’s mother founded the biggest civil rights movement to hit New York City in decades. It’s called ‘See Us’ and it tackles police brutality and racial profiling in Harlem. Ayo has spent her entire life being an activist and now, she wants out. She wants to get her first real kiss, have a boyfriend, and just be a normal teen.

When her mom is put into a coma after a riot breaks out between protesters and police, protestors want Ayo to become the face of See Us and fight for justice for her mother who can no longer fight for herself. While she deals with her grief and anger, Ayo must also discover if she has the strength to take over where her mother left off.

This impactful and unforgettable novel takes on the important issues of inequality, systemic racism, police violence, and social justice. (Credit: Versify)

The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

Expected Publication Date: August 18

The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know – in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes – that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It’s a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn’t. From the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers and The Spinning Heart, The Queen of Dirt Island is a celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations of women together. (Credit: Transworld Publications)

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Expected Publication Date: August 30

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.

The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…

Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide goes out and all is revealed. (Credit: Flatiron Books)

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